My Favorite Frankenset Card by Page; Page 8 (Cards 73 - 81)

It's time for another installment of my favorite Frankenset card (by page), where I show off my Frankenset by giving you my top three favorite cards from each page of the set. Let's jump right in.

3) 1993 Donruss #78, Damon Berryhill

I have what I suppose is a perverse love of cards showing failure and pain. This is one of them. My guess is this photo captures a moment right after a strikeout. 

2) 1992 Donruss Triple Play #80, Roger McDowell

Legendary jokester Roger McDowell has several unique cards, and this is one of them. Here, McDowell is shown bringing the lineup card out to the umpires while wearing a tool belt and a conspicuously large piece of sandpaper in his back pocket. Also note the sandpaper wrapped around his socks. By all accounts, the guy kept things interesting.

1) 2001 Fleer Futures #81, Tom Glavine

There are at least a few cards featuring Tom Glavine batting, which shouldn't be too surprising considering he played 22 seasons in the major leagues. I really like this one, courtesy of a nice set called Fleer Futures. Any guesses on Tom Glavine's career batting average? (Answer below.) 

With page eight now in the books, I thought I would start a standings section at the end of these posts tracking the Frankenset categories these cards fit into. For this post, we have an "Field Action Fail" with the Berryhill, a "Field Action - Awkward" with the McDowell, and a pitcher hitting with the Glavine. If a card happens to fit more than one category, I take the top two categories that made it qualify for the Frankenset, then split it into half points. I went back and calculated the previous seven pages, so after eight pages, here's what we've seen:

Category	Points
Lesser Known:	3.5
Glasses:	3
Mustache:	3
Odd Team:	3
Pitcher Hitting:	3
Field Action - Awkward:	2
Equipment Oddity:	1
Facial Expression - In Action:	1
Field Action Fail:	1
Pitcher Running Bases:	1
Position Player Pitching:	1
Why is he bunting?:	0.5
Chew:	0.5
Funny Name/Nickname:	0.5

Tom Glavine's career batting line:

• 1323 at-bats
• .186 BA
• 1 HR
• 90 RBI
• .454 OPS

What was your favorite card from page 8? The Berryhill fail? The McDowell shenanigans? Or the Glavine follow-through?

My Favorite Frankenset Card by Page; Page 3 (Cards 19-27)

Page 3 of the Frankenset has some solid cards. It can't quite measure up to page one or page two, but it does feature two baserunners you wouldn't expect to be pictured chugging around the bases on a baseball card.

Here are those entries:

1995 Pinnacle #22, Bob Hamelin

6'0", 230 lb. Bob Hamelin flying out the batter's box so fast his helmet falls off. Shocking fact: Hamelin stole four bases in 1994. FOUR! He swiped 11 in his six seasons in MLB.


Our second unlikely baserunner:

1996 SP #23, Tom Glavine

Stolen base fact (unlike the case of Hamelin, not found on the back of the card): Tom Glavine stole one base. In 22 seasons. Glavine had 1645 plate appearances in his career, whereas Hamelin had 1508.

So Bob Hamelin was clearly the better base stealer. (The preceding sentence was just typed for the first time in Western Civilization's known literature.)

Odd choices by Pinnacle and Upper Deck, for sure. But this week's winner is the beneficiary of an even odder choice decision by the makers of the 1990 Classic baseball series.

1990 Classic Yellow #T25, Jeff Treadway

Did you catch it? Odd, isn't it? Besides "why in the world would you choose this photo?," the other main thought I had was wondering what happened here. The only thing I can see causing this scenario is Treadway fouling the ball off. One of those barely got a piece of it spinning foul balls. For a guy who hit .277 in 134 games the previous season, you think Classic could have done better. Or maybe they were being sneakily intentional, because this card in my opinion, is a true "classic."